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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



From the enclosed oblong square, the visitor overlooks a larger open 

 space and notices in the distance the imposing structure devoted to 

 popular hygiene which is marked above the entrance in large and 

 imposing letters, " Der Mensch." This imposing structure has a 

 prominent, semicircular entrance, divided by a series of large columns, 

 11 meters high, surmounted by a cupola and leading into a spacious 

 vestibule, on either side of which are wardrobes, and, finally, into a 

 magnificent hall, with a stage or podium at its furthest end for giving 

 seating capacity to tlie officers conducting various meetings, with their 

 guests of honor. Against the background of this stage there is visible 

 a large statue with the inscription " No Wealth is equal to thee, 

 Health ! " This entire building is devoted to popular hygiene. Pass- 

 ing down the wide steps of the first open square, we find ourselves 

 entering a large open enclosure in the grounds. This is the so-called 

 " Festplatz." On the sides of this Festplatz are various small stores, a 



Main Couet of the Exhibition. 



music pavilion, garden restaurant, to the right a wine restaurant with 

 a terrace above and the recently erected pavilion of Great Britain. 

 Farther to the left and overlooking the garden restaurant there is the 

 permanent exhibition building of Dresden, artistically embedded among 

 the new buildings. On the left, also, and against the botanical garden 

 we find the recreation park. This park is occupied by a very original 

 Bavarian restaurant, a hippodrome, a place for dancing, an academic 

 Beer-kneipe, Japanese and Indian tea-houses. This recreation park 

 proved a great necessity in that it accommodated the overflow of sight- 

 seers and gave them a chance to rest and refresh themselves, lending at 

 the same time variety to scenery and interest to sightseers, without 

 interfering with the intended serious character of the exposition. 



The city exposition palace, Steinpalast, forms the center of the expo- 

 sition; this palace had to undergo extensive interior changes to accom- 

 modate the historical and ethnological sections, some of the most 

 remarkable features of the whole exposition. While exhibiting most 

 effectually the contrast between past and present conditions as regards 

 hygiene, it also showed and illustrated what we hear so often without 



